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bijections

bijections is the plural of bijection.

Meaning of bijection

Noun

bijection (plural bijections)

  1. A one-to-one correspondence, a function which is both a surjection and an injection.
    • The present text has defined a set to be finite if and only if there exists a bijection onto a natural number, and infinite if and only if there does not exist any such bijection.2002, Yves Nievergelt, Foundations of Logic and Mathematics, page 214
    Synonyms:
    bijective function, one-to-one correspondence

Questions about bijections

What is bijections the plural of?
Bijections is the plural of bijection.

Words near bijections in the dictionary

  1. bijaos
  2. Bijapur
  3. bijasal
  4. bijasals
  5. bijection
  6. bijections
  7. bijective
  8. bijective numeration
  9. bijective numerations
  10. bijectively
  11. bijectiveness

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